...every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame. GREECE. He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty...

...wings as thine, And such a head between them. GREECE, AS IT IMPRESSED THE MIND OF THE POET IN 1810. He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty...

...yet to come', And hears thy stormy musick in the drum*. SECTION XII. Address to Greece. — BYRON. He' . . who hath bent him o'er the dead', Ere the.... . is fled', The first dark day of nothingness*, The last' . . of danger and distress', (Before decay's effacing fingers' Have swept the lines where...

...Free from doubt and faithless sorrow ! God provideth for the morrow. " MODERN GREECE. BY LORD BYRON. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day ef nothingness, The last of danger and distress (Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines...

...FIRST DEATH. How awful, yet not unfrequently how beautiful, how very beautiful the aspect of death ! " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Er'e the first day of death has fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; Uefore decay's effacing...

...steps, a short turning, a dark narrow passage, and they were in the chamber of death ! — CHAPTER IX. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death hath fled,— The fint dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before decay's effacing...

...the terrible beauty of death ? who has not, in some degree, felt, what poetry only can describe ? " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty...

...the seraphs they assail'd, And, fix'd on heavenly thrones, should dwell The freed inheritors of hell; g bath bent him o'er the dead ( I ; Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness,...

...the seraphs they assall'd And, fix'd on heavenly thrones, should dwell The freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy 1 He who hath bent him o'er the dead ' Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness,...

...them. Not one thing speaks of death, but that meekly closed eye and that motionless form ! " Who that hath bent him o'er the dead. Ere the first day of death hath fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before decay's effacing...